Sentences with phrase «lunches these students qualify»

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The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

The Yankton School District participates in the National School Lunch Program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which permits the school system to offer free and reduced priced meals to students who qualify.

Last school year, meal participation was dropping in Napa Valley schools, even though around half of the student population qualifies for free and reduced lunches.

About 100,000 Chicago public high school students, 80 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced - price lunches, can choose nachos as an entree every day.

It seems very ironic due to the continued media portrayal of economically disadvantaged students who qualify for free or reduced school breakfasts / lunches.

For those unfamiliar with this mysterious sounding figure: She's a teacher in an elementary school in Illinois where most of the students qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch.

On an average day in Vermont's schools, about 75 % of students who qualify for free meals, and 50 % of all students, eat school lunch.

The area represents the highest concentration of poverty in our district and these students typically qualify for a free, nutritious lunch during the school year.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for free and reduced - priced lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each and every child receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.

So if almost all of the student at Nimitz qualify for free lunch, how is it the can afford the flaming cheetos and brownies?

She found, for example, that the Kansas high school which produced the widely - viewed «We Are Hungry» video has only 83 students, 29 of whom qualify for free and reduced lunch.

As the vast majority of students who eat school lunch are qualified for free / reduced, it really doesn't cost any more to also make that meal available for purchase by students whose families don't qualify for govt subsidy.

Todd Drafall, the district's business manager, said the schools are open to providing healthy food options but are limited by finances, which were further strained by a slight increase in the past few years of students qualifying for free and reduced - cost lunches.

Once again, please be aware that we will not offer a regular meal to students who have not paid or have not qualified for «free» lunch.

Supporting what you have said about the discrepancy in median income, only 8 % of students in the Steamboat Springs district qualify for free or reduced price lunch http://tinyurl.com/79paakd whereas in Greene County, 93 % qualify.

Every day, some students show up in the lunch line not qualified for free meals, but with no money in their school lunch account.

FRAC has set an ambitious, but achievable, goal of reaching 70 low - income students who qualify for free or reduced - price school breakfast for every 100 who eat school lunch.

Participation is limited to schools in which at least 50 percent of the student population qualifies for free or reduced - price lunches through the National School Lunch Program.

«There's no reason to stigmatize students who qualify for free lunch, and the extra bureaucracy involved in collecting money offsets much or all of the revenue anyway.

The price for a paid lunch, for the 60 % of Berkeley students who don't qualify for free / reduced, is the highest I have ever seen — $ 3.25 for elementary lunch, $ 3.75 for middle school, and $ 4.25 for high school.

Prince William officials said that although 90 to 95 percent of students eligible for free lunches eat every day, 85 percent or fewer of those who qualify for the reduced price eat a school lunch.

While families typically had to report their income every year to qualify, now whole school districts can decide to provide universal coverage — meaning free lunch for every student.

Ninety six percent of students are white, and only nine percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Its student body is 90 percent white and only six percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

MPS offers free breakfast to all students, and free lunch to both those whose family incomes make them eligible and those who qualify only for reduced - price lunch.

And without the oversight of the NSLP, who will be looking out for the reported 2,800 students in District 214 who qualify for free lunch and are therefore completely dependent upon the district for daily nutrition?

There are plenty of kids like that here in Montgomery County, Maryland, where 44,000 students qualify for the free lunch program.

The school also has a record number of students qualifying for free and reduced lunches, which is a sign that many families are struggling financially and likely opting for cheaper, less healthy choices, she said.

«I really try to be very understanding because I really want to get a nutritious lunch or breakfast in these kids,» said Osborn, adding that about 16 percent of her district's 3,500 students qualify for subsidized meals.

For example, in San Francisco, about 60 % of students are classified as being qualified for free or reduced price lunch in 2010 - 11, but about 85 % of students eating in the cafeteria are qualified for free or reduced lunch.

(E.g., compare the costs of administering the NSLP paperwork for the 80 % + of Houston's 200,000 students who qualify for free and reduced price lunch, or the significant overhead costs charged our Food Services by the district for things like garbage collection, electricity, insurance, payroll, human resources, etc..)

The bottom line facts you need to know: under the new school food law passed last year, school districts must bring the price for a paid lunch (that is, a lunch purchased by a student who does not qualify for free or reduced price meals) into line with what the meal actually costs, eventually charging an average of $ 2.46 per lunch.

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

Students who are homeless, in foster care, or qualify for free or low - priced school lunches will also be eligible for the waivers.

That identified more students who qualified for school lunches but didn't receive them.

Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

If the grant only serves districts with more than half their students from families poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, as some of the grant programs do, J - E, at 34 percent, would not qualify.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

Forty to 60 percent percent of the students at the schools qualified for free or reduced lunch, a marker for low socioeconomic status.

Low - income students were defined as those who qualify for a free or reduced - price school lunch.

Fifty - two percent of the students were female, 74 percent identified as black, 25 percent identified as Latino / Hispanic, and 85 percent qualified for free or reduced lunch.

But 99 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, so the school can't expect parents to pay for monthly broadband access, yet the school doesn't have the budget to pay for it, either.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

At Waiʻanae High School, one of the program sites, nearly 95 percent of students are people of color — 60 percent of those are Native Hawaiian — and roughly 70 percent of all students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

Piedmont is an inner - city magnet program serving approximately 700 students, half of whom qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program.

For example, Florida State University's 2017 study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program found that participants were four percentage points less likely to be white, one percentage point more likely to qualify for free lunch, and had prior math and reading scores that were two to four percentile points lower than eligible students that did not participate in the choice program.

Ninety - eight percent of Amistad's 250 students are African - American and Latino, and 84 percent qualify for free or reduced - priced lunches.